Mail-delivery apparatus.



J. ZOLA- MAIL DELIVERY APPARATUS..

APPLICATION FILED JULY 7, 1914.

Patented June 8, 1915.

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JOHN ZOLA, OF TRENTON, 'NEW JERSEY.

MAIL-DELIVERY APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June e, 1915.

Application filed July 7, 1914. Serial No, 849,503.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ZOLA, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Delivery Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in mail delivery apparatus.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a means for effecting an interchange of mail pouches between a station platform and a moving postal car and without injuring the mail matter.

A further object is to provide cooperating means upon both the platform'and the car so that the car may receive upon its hanger a mail pouch from the platform.

hanger and may leave another mail pouch in the place thereof, the latter being received by the platform hanger from the car hanger, all during the uninterrupted travel of the car past the platform.

A still further object is to provide an automatic means for exchanging mail pouches between a platform and a moving train and including adj ustably mounted pouch hangers upon the postal car.

With these general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings forming a part of this application and in which likedesignating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views :F igure 1 is a side elevation of a postal car partially broken away and showing the device 111- stalled thereon. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of the adjustable pivoting means for the pouch supports illustrated in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged top plan view of one of said pivoted supports.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, the postal car 10 is illustrated upon the railway track 11 and it is designed to provide a means for exchanging mail pouches between the postal car and a platform positioned at the side of the tracl The postal car 10 is provided with spaced doors 20 having a central partition 21 therebetween. Curved mail supporting rods or bars 22 are pivoted as at 23 to the inner face of the partition 21 and have their outer ends projecting through the adjacent door-way 20, as best illustrated in Fig. 3. The rods 22 are provided with extensions 24 upon their inner ends and upon which extensions are mounted spring pressed pawls 25 adapted to engage the desired one of the teeth of a rack 26 carried by the adjacent inner face of said partition 21. By this arrangement it will be seen that the position of the curved portion of the rods 22 may be readily adjusted by means of the extensions 24. 7

It is. preferable to provide the postal car with non-alining doors upon opposite sides of the car and each provided with a pair of the pouch supportingv rods for the purpose of interchanging pouches upon opposite sides of the car and track and for the accommodation of stations and platforms that are positioned upon both sides of a single line railway as well as providing the car with the improved device at the right hand side thereof and in whichever direction the readily positioned by the railway clerk upon the proper rod of the car and by the station agent the out-going pouch is positionedupon the proper armof a platform. The adjustability of the rods carried by the car is for the purpose of bringing the same into accurate sliding contact with the cooperating arm of a platform. By this arrangement it will be plain that an interchange of mail pouches may be readily effected be tween the moving car and any station platform or arm supporting post, which is accurately positioned for the purpose at either side of the track upon which the car travels.

What I claim is A device of the class described comprising a support, curved rods pivoted in different vertical planes to one side of said support therefor and extending outwardly therefrom In testimony whereof I affix my signature in opposite directions, handle extensions in presence of two witnesses. upon said rods, toothed racks upon said support, and spring pressed adjusting pawls JOHN ZOLA. carried by said handles for engaging the Witnesses:

desired tooth of said rack when said arms MARTIN NAWRVEIK,

are in their adjusted positions. JOSEPH ZOLA.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

